Gipson v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

PALMER, J.

The question posed by this certified appeal is whether an indigent criminal defendant has a right to the assistance of counsel in connection with the filing of a petition for certification seeking this court’s discretionary review of a judgment of the Appellate Court upholding the defendant’s conviction. The *634petitioner, Bernard Gipson, who is indigent, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel because his appellate counsel failed to file a petition for certification with this court challenging the…